There are two storms moving over the United States -- one in the Midwest, one in the South -- that will merge and gather strength off the Atlantic Coast Thursday, then push north.

The storm will bring light snow to the region late Thursday night into Friday morning. It will worsen throughout Friday, Jacquemin said, and be at its most miserable late Friday afternoon into early Saturday morning.

Jacquemin said the storm's current track shows it will run along the "40/70 Line" -- 40 degrees north latitude, 70 degrees west longitude -- that will take it over Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

That's the line that traditionally means a storm that covers New England with snow, he said.

Jacquemin said there's a chance that the warmer air the storm will push ahead of it will give us a mix of snow, rain and sleet for at least part of the storm. If that happens, it could mean an extremely dense cover of about 8 inches of wet snow for Connecticut.

But, Jacquemin said, there's another model that shows the storm pulling down cold air from the north as it intensifies. That would mean all snow.

Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton said Wednesday that he and his department heads will meet mid-Thursday when the forecast becomes clearer.

"All our equipment is ready, we're healthy, we have plenty of material,'' he said of the salt and sand needed to make roads passable. "We're ready.''

Because of the timing of the storm, its track, and the history of the state getting some staggering storms in the first two weeks of February -- including The Blizzard of 1978 which hit Feb. 6 -- Jacquemin is leaning toward lots of snow.